Quotes from Sergei Lukyanenko

The only thing that restrains you is fear , Anton Gorodetsky. For yourself, or for people—that's not important. But we are restrained by horror . And that is why we observe the Treaty.

What kind of monster are you anyway? You should be more humane, Gennady!" "I was humane when I was alive," said the vampire.

Love is a great power, and such a strange power...

Do you remember the fairy tale about the mermaid? A witch gave her legs, she could walk, but she felt like there were red hot knives stabbing into her feet all the time. That story's about us, Maxim! We always walk over sharp knives, and that's something you can never get used to. But Hans Christian Anderson didn't tell the whole story. The witch could have done things differently: the mermaid walks, and the knives stab other people. That's the way of the Dark.

Isn't that always the way! Just when you really want to know if you did the right thing or not. But no one will ever answer that question for you.

People don't usually think about the meaning of the words they say. It seems to them that words convey truth. That when someone hears the word "red" he will think of a ripe raspberry and not a pool of blood. That the word "love" will evoke Shakespeare's sonnets and not the erotic films of Playboy. And they find themselves baffled when the word they've spoken doesn't evoke the right response.

Would any grown girl in Russia be frightened by a "room of horror"? Westerner's lives are too calm and peaceful, is makes them afraid of all sorts of nonsense...

I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay.

Others are not born bad or good... and neither are people, by the way.

When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed.

So what's vodka for" "For the soul. If it's hurting real bad.

Maybe it was cold and miserable in the forest, but man can bring his own warmth and comfort anywhere he goes.

Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.

In Russia a café like this would have been closed down in a moment. In Europe they would have put the owner in prison. In the USA the proprietor would have been hit with an absolutely massive fine. And in Japan the boss of an establishment like this would have committed seppuku out of a sense of shame.

What if every time you fought for love, you were fighting for the whole world? For the whole world - not against the whole world.

Who's James Bond?" Zabulon inquired.

This one swears like a trooper-- he's a bad boy.

Evil goes unpunished for too often.

To kill the enemy is valorous. To condemn him to torment is infamous. To condemn him to eternal torment is eternal infamy.

Because love is also a power. A great power, and it should not be disdained.

When we acknowledge that human beings have the right to choose, we deprive ourselves of it

The past is not important. The present is inconsequential. The future is indeterminate. He

If you have love in you, it's a strength. But if you are in love, it's a weakness.

She had never liked people who spoke too familiarly upon first meeting. There ought to be a little bit more formality.